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Production and investigation of flexible nanofibers of sPEEK/PVP loaded with RuO2 nanoparticles
Published 2021“…The results illustrated the increase in resistivity as well as the activation energy with the increase of nanoparticle concentration due to the reduction in the free SO<sub>3</sub>H groups because of the strong ionic crosslinking. …”
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Heat Integration and Controllability Analysis of Heat Exchanger Networks
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Off-design performance analysis of combined CSP power and direct oxy-combustion supercritical carbon dioxide cycles
Published 2021“…On the other hand, the increase of the TIT improves the cycle efficiency (by 8.6%) but also increases the consumed fuel by (57%).…”
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Coping mechanisms among Lebanese first-time college students
Published 2012“…As the usage of withdrawal coping strategies, being exposed to stress related to self and uncertainty increased, the well-being of Lebanese first-time college students decreased. …”
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Essays on the effect of excess compensation and governance changes on firm value
Published 2012“…Our results suggest that an increase in director excess compensation decreases the likelihood of CEO turnover, reduces the turnover-performance sensitivity, and increases managerial entrenchment. …”
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Functional disability of road traffic injury patients admitted to the National Hospital of Sri Lanka on admission and three months after discharge from the hospital
Published 2015“…At three months after the injury significant increase proportion of functional disability was observed with increase number of body regions injured (p=0.000) and with increase injury severity (p=0.000). …”
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A Parallel Algorithm for Inverse Halftoning and its Hardware Implementation
Published 2020“…Abstract Lookup Table (LUT) method for inverse halftoning is computation less, fast and also yields goods results. This paper proposes a parallel algorithm for inverse halftoning by parallelizing the LUT method of inverse halftoning. …”
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A geoenvironmental application of burned wastewater sludge ash in soil stabilization
Published 2014“…The results show that the addition of 7.5 % of the burned sludge ash by the dry weight of the soil will increase the unconfined compressive strength and maximum dry density and also decrease the swelling pressure and the swell potential of the soil. …”
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Personnel contributions to UN and non-UN peacekeeping missions A public goods approach
Published 2015“…The analysis shows that UN missions are much less responsive to personnel spillovers, derived from other contributors' peacekeepers, than is the case of non-UN missions. …”
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Energy Performance of Public Housing Buildings in Sao Paulo, Brazil An Evaluation of the Current Design Process
Published 2010“…On the other hand, the worldwide population increase forced the implementation of mass production constructions to solve housing deficits. …”
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A Multi-Channel Convolutional Neural Network approach to automate the citation screening process
Published 2021“…<p dir="ltr">The systematic literature review (SLR) process is separated into several steps to increase rigor and reproducibility. The selection of primary studies (i.e., citation screening) is an important step in the SLR process. …”
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Modeling of Chlorophyll-a and Eutrophication Indicators in the Dubai Creek Area using Remote Sensing
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Investigation and Mathematical Modeling of Acoustic Release of Doxorubicin from Micelles
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The effect of knowledge sharing on employees innovation in media industry
Published 2012“…Knowledge is a source of power for organizations. To increase knowledge within the organization, a knowledge sharing practice has to be involved. …”
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Transforming power sharing
Published 2017“…Lebanon’s corporate consociation is in institutional crisis. Given domestic constraints, however, a shift from corporate to liberal consociation is not an option. …”
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Gender Differences in Executive Compensation on British Corporate Boards
Published 2020“…We exploit the effectiveness of the Davies Report (2011), which urged FTSE 350 companies to increase female representation on corporate boards to examine the potential effect that this may have on the gender pay differential at the executive level. …”
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Excessive managerial entrenchment, corporate governance, and firm performance. (c2019)
Published 2019“…Our main focus is on firms’ excess managerial entrenchment, which is calculated by finding the difference between firm’s E-index and its industry median in a given year. Our findings suggest that an increase in excess CEO entrenchment reduces the likelihood of CEO turnover due to poor performance. …”
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Image coding using entropy-constrained reflected residual vector quantization
Published 2002“…The constrained Ref-RVQ codebook exhibits an increase in distortion. However, it was conjectured that the Ref-RVQ codebook has a lower output entropy than that of the multipath RVQ codebook. …”
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An experimental and numerical approach to understand the effect of the IPMC composition on its sensing and energy harvesting behavior
Published 2014“…Previous numerical work by the author, demonstrated that increasing the ionic concentration of the ionomer will increase the current and voltage generated by an IPMC. …”
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